THE MORAL TENDENCY OF DIVINE REVELATION ASSERTED AND ILLUSTRATED, IN EIGHT DISCOURSES PREACHED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD IN THE YEAR MDCCCXXI, At the Lecture founded by THE LATE REV. JOHN BAMPTON, M. A. CANON OF SALISBURY. BY THE REV. JOHN JONES, M. A. OF JESUS COLLEGE, ARCHDEACON OF MERIONETH, AND RECTOR OF Llanbedr. Κατὰ τὸν καλέσαντα ὑμᾶς ̔́ΑΓΙΟΝ, καὶ αὐτοὶ ̔́ΑΓΙΟΙ ἐν πάσῃ ἀνα- OXFORD, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS FOR THE AUTHOR. SOLD BY J. PARKER, OXFORD; AND MESSRS. RIVINGTON, ST. ΤΟ THE RIGHT REVEREND AND REVEREND THE VICE-CHANCELLOR AND HEADS OF COLLEGES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, THESE LECTURES, PREACHED BY THEIR APPOINTMENT, ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY THEIR FAITHFUL AND OBEDIENT SERVANT THE AUTHOR. "I give and bequeath my Lands and Estates "to the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the Uni66 versity of Oxford for ever, to have and to hold all and "singular the said Lands or Estates upon trust, and to "the intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned; that "is to say, I will and appoint that the Vice-Chancellor "of the University of Oxford for the time being shall "take and receive all the rents, issues, and profits there"of, and (after all taxes, reparations, and necessary de❝ductions made) that he pay all the remainder to the ❝endowment of eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, to be “established for ever in the said University, and to be "performed in the manner following: "I direct and appoint, that, upon the first Tuesday in "Easter Term, a Lecturer be yearly chosen by the "Heads of Colleges only, and by no others, in the room 66 adjoining to the Printing-House, between the hours of ❝ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, to preach "eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the year following, at "St. Mary's in Oxford, between the commencement of "the last month in Lent Term, and the end of the third "week in Act Term. |